That fateful day 24th February, 1966

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WAR AGAINST NPP BULLYING 9 years ago

THEY WANT EVERYTHING ON THEIR TERMS!!! SOON, ONLY BIBLES WITH AN NPP LOGO AND MANIFESTO WILL REPRESENT THE TRUE WORD OF GOD-THAT'S HOW BAD THEY ARE. ANYTHING GOOD CANNOT BE GOOD UNLESS IT IS ORDAINED BY NPP!!! NPP IS PRODUCIN ...
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THEY WANT EVERYTHING ON THEIR TERMS!!! SOON, ONLY BIBLES WITH AN NPP LOGO AND MANIFESTO WILL REPRESENT THE TRUE WORD OF GOD-THAT'S HOW BAD THEY ARE. ANYTHING GOOD CANNOT BE GOOD UNLESS IT IS ORDAINED BY NPP!!! NPP IS PRODUCING BRAINWASHED ZOMBIES, FRANTICALLY CUTTING &PASTING-IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, READ THE GHANAWEB COMMENTS AND ARTICLES SINCE THE ELECTIONS!!! EVEN THOUGH THEY WON IN 2 REGIONS, THEY ARE STILL CLAIMING THEY WON THE ELECTIONS...AND AKUFFO ADDO THINKS HE CAN CHANGE HISTORY, HE THINKS EVERY GHANAIAN IS STUPID..HE THINKS THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN HIS NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THEIR MOUTHS CLOSED. HMMM, STRANGE DAYS ARE COMING!!!
ANNUAR MUSAH. 9 years ago

No need to write about those issue as it will open old wounds.

No need to write about those issue as it will open old wounds.
United Ghana 9 years ago

It's history and it's wrong to hide or distort it.

It's history and it's wrong to hide or distort it.
Yahaya 9 years ago

May the soul of Dr. Nkrumah rest with our creator!

May the soul of Dr. Nkrumah rest with our creator!
SAINT 9 years ago

MAY BUSIA AND AFRIFA SUFFER IN HELL.

MAY BUSIA AND AFRIFA SUFFER IN HELL.
SUZUTA 9 years ago

Nkrumah did very well but the slaughtering of his political oponents was what brought him down.We must learn to do well and seek judgement.

Nkrumah did very well but the slaughtering of his political oponents was what brought him down.We must learn to do well and seek judgement.
Sankofa 9 years ago

Whom did Nkrumah slaughter?

Who was responsible for all the attempts on his life?

Please check your facts first.

Whom did Nkrumah slaughter?

Who was responsible for all the attempts on his life?

Please check your facts first.
Amanfo 9 years ago

Truly, nothing can dissect such a complex and sophiscated figure like the greatest African, Osagyfo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Osagyefo will never go away.
Thank you

Truly, nothing can dissect such a complex and sophiscated figure like the greatest African, Osagyfo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Osagyefo will never go away.
Thank you
Koo Bantoma 9 years ago

I salute you, Kwesi Atta Sakyi.
In the face of greed where Busia signed with his toes - to add to the propaganda rumours against Nkrumah - none of our leaders after Nkrumah has ever exhibited selflessness.

I salute you, Kwesi Atta Sakyi.
In the face of greed where Busia signed with his toes - to add to the propaganda rumours against Nkrumah - none of our leaders after Nkrumah has ever exhibited selflessness.
Frenchman 9 years ago

Please be simple in your expressions so as to be understood by the layman. That doesn't make you a bright fellow oh ghanaman!

Please be simple in your expressions so as to be understood by the layman. That doesn't make you a bright fellow oh ghanaman!

Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Kwesi Atta Sakyi,
Thanks for your essay.

You say in part "...the February 24th, 1966 coup d’état...was believed to have been orchestrated by a condominium and syndication of some powerful western powers, namely Britai ...
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Kwesi Atta Sakyi,
Thanks for your essay.

You say in part "...the February 24th, 1966 coup d’état...was believed to have been orchestrated by a condominium and syndication of some powerful western powers, namely Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and the USA..." and end your essay with, "....Was Nkrumah a victim of the Cold War? 24th February 1966 evokes mixed feelings among Ghanaians. Was it a day of shame, or the day of blame of Nkrumah’s ultra-leftist tendencies? History is the impartial judge of all human actions....".

We do not know if it is truly the case that "History is the impartial judge of all human actions....".

What we know is that People must write their own stories, including their own histories.

In that context, we do no understand how two generations since, "History" would still be the "judge" in this matter.

Are we going to have others write that history, or would you want to write it yourself, by taking positions fundamental to that history, as many data points you've taken pains to enumerate in your essay?

We are saying at this time that more than 50 years later, we are old enough.

The history is already written for those who want to see:
Not only was Nkrumah a victim of the "Cold War", but more important, the People and the State of Ghana were victims of the Cold War, too. And it was at the hands of Presidenet Johnson. As such, your list of "a condominium and syndication of some powerful western powers, namely Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and the USA" is a tad out of order and superflous for items not directly related.

To the point, the history shows the Johnson's USA was directly responsible, quarter-backed by Britain and France. (It will be idiotic if we were to decide to ask for confession(s).

That, our dear friend, is the "history" we will communicate to a classroom to which we are invited to speak about that "history". We cannot be impartial observers. We are active agents of that history. What Ghanaians (and Africans) actually do with that history is now one of the most important conundrums facing Ghana, in particular.

We ain't gonna get nowhere until Ghanaian leaders and Peoples deal with that most important aspect of their history!

Finally, you note that "Observers believe that the stupendous economic and developmental achievements chalked by Nkrumah, and the sterling patriotic zeal he exhibited in the cause of Ghana and Africa during his tenure has not been matched by any of our subsequent Ghanaian leaders, past or present."

That, we agree!

There is data to back it all up.

Thanks for your contribution.

Greetings!
Kwesi Sakyi 9 years ago

Thank you very much Prof Lungu for your kind rejoinder in academic exegesis and disquisition. The reason why history is written to inform and educate future generations about the successes and pitfalls of the past so that we ...
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Thank you very much Prof Lungu for your kind rejoinder in academic exegesis and disquisition. The reason why history is written to inform and educate future generations about the successes and pitfalls of the past so that we learn valuable lessons from past mistakes and build upon the past successes so that we move forward the frontiers of knowledge and shed more light on our historical origins. Human beings being rational and different in dispositions, perceptions, inclinations and proclivities have larger freedom to arrive at their own conclusions by drawing inferences and interpreting history from factual evidence. The facts of life are always immutable and indelible because despite manipulations by historiographers, the living records of our deeds cannot be erased and these landmarks being our progeny, children, concrete structures or ideas captured in literary works cannot be effaced by distortions, misinterpretations and contortionists. Gandhi once said if you want to change the world, be that change yourself because charity begins at home. Nkrumah played his role, and as Shakespeare says life is a stage on which men make their entrances and exits, what are our roles now to add to what Nkrumah achieved? Nkrumah's works speak to us and rebuke us from the grave because all that he predicted or prognosed have come to pass to our consternation and chagrin. It is improper and academically unethical to interprete Nkrumah to our tutees. We as professors are facilitators to help our students think critically and from then facts draw their own informed conclusions. Greetings and peace and love. Nkrumah lives!
Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

To Prof Lungu & Kwesi Sakyi,

Thanks for your intellectual efforts on behalf of the incomparable Greatest African.

To Prof Lungu & Kwesi Sakyi,

Thanks for your intellectual efforts on behalf of the incomparable Greatest African.
VPutin 9 years ago

Caught up in tribal frenzies, many fail to see the big picture, that this pan-African leader was changing the destiny of the whole black-race. The effects of the overthrow of Nkrumah allowed other races to revel in the stereo ...
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Caught up in tribal frenzies, many fail to see the big picture, that this pan-African leader was changing the destiny of the whole black-race. The effects of the overthrow of Nkrumah allowed other races to revel in the stereotype that "blacks are useless eaters and hewers of wood". Some justify this anti-development by claiming that Nkrumah was helping Africa instead of Ghana. Nationalism, in our context of colonial borders is just mega-tribalism!
CHANGE IS COMING 9 years ago

Damirifa Due, Osagyefo. Nkrumah never dies. Kotoka, Afrifa, Deku, et al, were and are the bane of Ghana. Imagine where Gha would have been if Osagyefo had not been overthrown. And who said the coup makers had justifiable reas ...
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Damirifa Due, Osagyefo. Nkrumah never dies. Kotoka, Afrifa, Deku, et al, were and are the bane of Ghana. Imagine where Gha would have been if Osagyefo had not been overthrown. And who said the coup makers had justifiable reasons? Any sensible leader whose govt was undermined by bomb throwers will surely institute measures to protect his regime. And that was what Osagyefo did.

Now we are 50 years behind the Asian Tigers like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and China. Gh was a cursed country in 1966 cos of the coup. If Lts Arhur and Yeboah had succeeded in their counter coup of 1967, Nkrumah would have been brought back to Ghana. Shame, CIA and all the local collaborators. Afruca and the black man has been the loser. Nigerians loved Nkrumah, I tell you. Great visionary like Lee Kuan Yew and Mao Tse Tung.
Sankofa 9 years ago

Our problems began from 24 February 1966.

Vision, foresight, forward-thinking and wisdom died as Osagyefo was overthrown.

We built Akosombo dam and inaugurated it in January 1966. Why, 50 years later, did we have to go ...
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Our problems began from 24 February 1966.

Vision, foresight, forward-thinking and wisdom died as Osagyefo was overthrown.

We built Akosombo dam and inaugurated it in January 1966. Why, 50 years later, did we have to go through dumsor? We built Pwalugu tomato factory to can tomatoes. Why did we abandon it with the consequence that tomato is so expensive today? What happened to the State farms?

What happened to expansion of education with universal access to education and health? What happened to supply of good potable water?

What happened to all the progressive policies under Nkrumah?
BOWONDA 9 years ago

May the Good Lord Bless you Obenfo Kwesi Sakyi. Some of us were old enough at the time to know what was going on and hence these reminders are very revealing. It is a great shame that the Nation that Osagyefo literally laid d ...
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May the Good Lord Bless you Obenfo Kwesi Sakyi. Some of us were old enough at the time to know what was going on and hence these reminders are very revealing. It is a great shame that the Nation that Osagyefo literally laid down his life for, is now being seen as some people's personal estate so that they could pillage it to enrich themselves and their cronies without fear!
As for Sankofa's questions, what basically happened was that the propaganda machine went round saying that all those projects were evidence of Nkrumah's 'Communist' tendencies! Even the Silos that were built around the country to store cocoa to help 'force' world price to go up, were explained by the Propagandists, of course, under the tutelage of Uncle Sam, that these were the places people would be queuing up for their food rations everyday! Somehow, it was worded in such a way that it did not click that people should ask: In the City of Kumasi, for example, if people were to queue up for their food rations at the Silos, when would they be able to get back to work? People were so fearful and gullible that they accepted the disinformation! This is what has brought us where we are now! And yet, there people seemingly educated who will mount the platform and defend the status quo that 'ALL IS FINE. WE ARE DOING VERY WELL'. May the Good Lord have Mercy on our Dear Motherland Ghana. Amen
Afrikikoman--Abiding in Salvation per 9 years ago

Akosombo alone makes him get my votes anytime. Knust, a university city add more to my vote for him. His orderliness could haad prevailed had it not been outrightly demolished in documentaries, libraries and out novies memori ...
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Akosombo alone makes him get my votes anytime. Knust, a university city add more to my vote for him. His orderliness could haad prevailed had it not been outrightly demolished in documentaries, libraries and out novies memories.
He lived USA, schooled in it, and knew what to take from it or reject from it. A clear analytical leader we might not get again. Oh! Ghana my motherland.

I promised my honour, to be faithful and loyal to ghana my motherland. I rent my service to uphold the good name of Ghana. So help me God.
Mr wright 9 years ago

Infact thank's for all that, most people don't know what happen that time

Infact thank's for all that, most people don't know what happen that time

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